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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Defensive Grip gives -2 to attack but reduces the penalty to hit chinks in armor by two, effectively resulting in a +0, meaning that the Estoc becomes the only real factor.
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Many of the RL examples of estocs that I've seen are "longsword" length, and would be treated as two-handed; but I do see that the example in MA is one-handed, and so I suppose that would be correct. I hadn't processed that.
It doesn't really change the overall problem, though—still lowers the eye penalty below normal—but it does make it less "extreme."